Senior RMIT University nursing lecturer Jennifer James believes the proposal could prove particularly effective in assisting young mothers of culturally diverse and indigenous backgrounds, News.com.au reports.

Dr James also suggested libraries and community centres as other potential venues for pop-up clinic services.

Labor families spokeswoman Jenny Macklin. (AAP)

Head of policy at Australian aid and development agency Save the Children, Annie Bodmer-Roy, said she believes the initiative “makes sense”.

It comes after Ms Macklin rubbished the government’s own proposed welfare blueprint as “disappointing” earlier this month.

Speaking to the Sydney Morning Herald, Ms Macklin cited the blueprint’s failure to make “significant” recommendations.

In her Growing Together report, Ms Macklin notes the current lack of “integrated, cross-portfolio framework for investment in the early years” and suggests a number of additional measures to help target national child and maternal health care needs.

Ms Macklin prefaces the report by saying her desire is to spark “a new, positive discussion about the long-term shape of social policy in Australia”.